Research Support

Here are items of interest to academic librarians engaged in research support for academics and researchers.

Just like the Thesis Whisperer – but with more money. Events - ANDS. 23 Research Things blog / University of Melbourne. 23 Research Things 2015 2015 may not have brought us hoverboards (though self-sealing Nike are in the works) but it did bring us a chance to reflect on new content for the 23 Research Things program at the University of Melbourne Library.

After the success of Researcher@Library Week, we’ll be revising 23 Research Things with some new digital tools and updates to some familiar ones. Stay tuned, and let us know in the comments if there’s anything you’d particularly like us to cover. 23 Research Things. 23 (research data) Things - ANDS. 23 (research data) Things is self-directed learning for anybody who wants to know more about research data.

If you are a person who cares for, and about, research data and want to fill in some gaps, learn more or find out what others are thinking, then this may be for you! Find out more: read the FAQs. Research Data MANTRA - Library Training. Introduction During autumn and winter 2012-13, data librarians at the University of Edinburgh (Robin Rice and Anne Donnelly) led a pilot course for four University academic service librarians on Research Data Management (RDM) covering five topics involving reading assigments from the MANTRA course, reflective writing, and 2-hour face-to-face training sessions, including group exercises from the UK Data Archive (UKDA).

The course was deemed successful by participants and Information Services managers, and was delivered to all the University's academic service librarians. Here we share our training for small groups of librarians anywhere who wish to gain confidence and understanding of research data management. The DIY Training Kit is designed to contain everything needed to complete a similar training course on your own (in small groups) and is based on open educational materials.
"Altmetrics" 2015 Library Technology Reports 51(5)
Skills to support digital scholarship. Competencies for RDM June 2016. Competencies for ScholComm and OA June 2016. Elsevier Scopus Blog - tips, webinars, metrics. Research Skill Development for curriculum design and assessment. Welcome to the Research Skill Development (RSD) Homepage This site is home to a community of academics, tutors, librarians, student support staff and, of course, students, that uses the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework (Willison & O'Regan, 2007) to create discipline-based and interdisciplinary approaches and resources.

This use of the RSD enables the explicit, incremental and coherent development of students' and academics' research skills. Click to view an introductory video. All material on the RSD site is under the creative commons licence, to be used freely and shared back in free open access. Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.
Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. NISO - National Information Standards Organization. Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing - OASPA. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications.

Our organizations have collaborated in an effort to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications and to clarify that these principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications will be evaluated. These criteria are largely derived from those developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals. Note that additional membership criteria may also be used by each of the scholarly organizations. The organizations will not share information about applications received.

This is the second version of a work in progress (published June 2015); the first version was made available by OASPA in December 2013.
Being published - Publishing your research: choosing where to publish - All guides at RMIT University.